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Making dentures is a long, tedious process I wish we had gone through our first year - because then I wouldn’t be doing it now! In short the process is tedious and time consuming. The steps are numerous and can be a headache. With wax rims attached to triad bases teeth are [...]

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We have our big quiz tomorrow, which I am taking a small break from studying for to bring you some pictures of this years projects. In corner number one we have a RPD made of white triad, wax, and some fake acrylic teeth. It is worth 10% of our lab grade.

After many lab [...]

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Not only is this class a beast, the quizzes are very hard to study for and perform well on. We have a quiz in a couple of days on anatomical locations in the mouth. I have attached a couple of sheets you can download and look at if you wish to see what [...]

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One of the big projects we had this year was to make a porcelain crown from start to finish. We restored tooth #12, a maxillary 1st premolar. This was a tedious process that we had to work on during our own time during the lab.  Some of the steps were required to be [...]

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Our final projects at Temple (most likely they vary from year to year) were a porcelain crown and some root canal projects. This article will highlight the cast post and core, duralay, and other root canal projects that were due the last week of lab. The other project we had in lab was [...]

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I almost put this under the title “Tricks of the Trade - Alginate Over Impression.”  Every once in a while you see some work that brings a tear to your eye. A couple of weeks ago one such occasion occurred. My good friend from undergraduate and I are in the same class [...]

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We learned early in our first semester that turning in a dirty typodont after a practical might receive a check. The grading forms don’t have a section under cleanliness so no one really thought to clean the mouth. Some people got their grading form back, freshly revised & edited, with a ‘written in’ [...]

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This one comes to me from an upper classmen. We were chatting and I mentioned to him that I forgot to put vaseline on my Jade Stone and pin model before pouring up the buff stone base. (As seen in my gold crown write up, here is a pic:)

Normally you place vaseline all [...]

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It helps to see the process before you do it for the first time. Make sure to add BORAX (I didn’t add any in the video and it still turned out, but better safe than sorry)
Enjoy!
Gold Crown Part I
Gold Crown Part II

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I haven’t been as diligent in picture taking this year. Partly due to a broken camera for the first month and partly due to time crunches in lab. When you are trying to pass off crown preps, wax-ups, provisionals, and get castings done for a porcelain fused to metal casting the last thing [...]

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